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House Bill 1453




    Florida House of Representatives - 1997                HB 1453

        By the Committee on Colleges & Universities and
    Representatives Casey, Rojas, Brooks, Ball, Rayson,
    Betancourt, Villalobos, Constantine, Goode, Ritter, Bradley
    and Wise



  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the Florida Prepaid Tuition

  3         Scholarship Program; reviving and readopting s.

  4         240.552, F.S., which establishes the program;

  5         providing an effective date.

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  7  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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  9         Section 1.  Notwithstanding section 42 of chapter

10  91-201, Laws of Florida, section 240.552, Florida Statutes,

11  shall not stand repealed on October 1, 1997, as scheduled by

12  that law, but that section is revived and readopted to read:

13         240.552  Florida Prepaid Tuition Scholarship

14  Program.--The Florida Prepaid Tuition Scholarship Program is

15  hereby established with the intent to provide economically

16  disadvantaged youth with prepaid postsecondary tuition

17  scholarships.  The direct-support organization established

18  pursuant to s. 240.551 shall administer the program with the

19  assistance and cooperation of the Department of Education to

20  achieve the following objectives:

21         (1)  Provide an incentive for economically

22  disadvantaged youth to improve school attendance and academic

23  performance in order to graduate and pursue a postsecondary

24  education.

25         (2)  Obtain the commitment and involvement of private

26  sector entities by virtue of funding matches with a ratio of

27  50 percent provided by the private sector and 50 percent

28  provided by the state.

29         (3)  Purchase prepaid tuition scholarships for students

30  certified by the Department of Education to the direct-support

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  1  organization who meet minimum economic and school requirements

  2  and remain drug free and crime free.

  3         (a)  For the purpose of this subsection, "drug free"

  4  means not being convicted of, or adjudicated delinquent for,

  5  any violation of chapter 893 after being designated a

  6  recipient of a Florida prepaid tuition scholarship.

  7         (b)  For the purpose of this subsection, "crime free"

  8  means not being convicted of, or adjudicated delinquent for,

  9  any felony or first degree misdemeanor as defined in ss.

10  775.08 and 775.081 after being designated a recipient of a

11  Florida prepaid tuition scholarship.

12         Section 2.  This act shall take effect October 1, 1997.

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      Revives and readopts the Florida Prepaid Tuition
17    Scholarship Program which is scheduled for repeal October
      1, 1997.
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